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the sour cIkmtv : tlicy ])car naturally aud do not lia\c to be 

 grafted, and the_\' will crop e\er}- year. I ha\e a nice .sweet 

 cherry tree that will blossom out lull and then ])erhaps not, 

 the frost but something else kills them. I do know 1 can 

 raise English sour cherries at v$4 a bushel and make good 

 mone}' at it. We ha\e ne\er found an\- San jose scale oh the 

 cherries. 



Mr. W'liKKi.KR of ^las.sachusetts : There is a cherry or- 

 chard near ni}- home of perhaps a hundred trees, about 35 years 

 old, all sweet cherries, three \'arieties : these trees have always 

 been in sod, ne\er cultixated. The}' are high growing trees, 

 some being from iS to 40 feet tall, and that makes picking the 

 fruit difficult. Those trees pa}- the owner at the rate of $10 

 a }-ear, giving him a continuous crop the last 15 years since he 

 has been on the place. 



Mr. Roberts of New Jersey : T am interested in the 

 cherry (juestion. With us that fruit is an important one and 

 has a good market. The beauty of the cherry is that when 

 we have half a crop the market will take the entire crop at a 

 big price, and wh.en there is a big crop the market will take 

 them at fair price. I think we should grow more cherries. 



Mr. Bassett of Michigan : In Michigan the Montmorency 

 is the leading cherr\- of the sour variet}' : it is certainly a 

 winner with us. The Early Richmond is also one of the old 

 standbys, but the English Morello is one of the most difficult to 

 control by ordinary growers on account of the difficulty in 

 saving the foliage. Some first-class growers are successful in 

 controlling the injury to the leaf by thorough spraying and 

 keeping the foliage sprayed most of the time. In our section, 

 to make it clear, fruit growing is a profession. \\> don't do 

 anything else: we don't raise corn or any other croj), and when 

 vou make a specialty of any one thing you can do much better 

 with that business than when you try it' as a sixle issue. 



President Eddn': There is an op])ortunit\- now for 

 further (juestions and I ho])e tlie members will impro\-e the 

 time. 



Mr. Cox: Is there not a lot of difference in the \arieties 

 of apples in regard to being troubled with the codling moth? 



